It is too much, let me sum up.
1. Memorial Day weekend Game Night was, as always, a mix of the awesome and the ridiculous and the faintly incomprehensible. And now it is over and I'm sitting with the windows open and the kitchen is clean again and the laundry is running and I have a whole afternoon of quiet in front of me and it is GLORIOUS.
2. Taste of Rockville: A++ would nom again. With bonus screenprinted art that I will need to send out to the framer this week. And find a place to hang. Um.
3. BATTLESHIP. No, see, it turns out? That Set and I are pretty much the target audience for this movie. Even the crap parts were fantastic crap, and it was clear that the creators were both totally aware of the requirements for summer action flicks, and a little too smart for their own good. It's another movie that manages to be too much meta for audiences to really like, and too much fuck-you-genre-police for critics to admire, I think. Also, we need a schedule for all the movies we need to see this summer.
The GK reference was SO HILARIOUS that I thought I was hearing things. As in, "wait, no, really? Did he REALLY just say that with a straight face? FAVORITE."
As far as we can tell, the residual message of BATTLESHIP is that the world was saved by everyone BUT the traditional white-guy action heroes.* Who spent the entire movie either sitting on their thumbs or Exploded in Meaningful Ways. While everyone with a hyphenated identity kicked alien ass.
Also, veterans are AWESOME.
In short, I approve.
4. Final Marvel superhero marathon count:
The Losers
Shaft
Iron Man
Captain America
X-Men: First Class
Fantastic Four
Conclusions: The Losers is a MUCH better movie when recast with Avengers. People may not be interchangeable like snowmobile parts, but apparently Air Force officers are. Captain America + Apples to Apples + alcohol = A++ drinking game. Both of the available alloys of vibranium and adamantium are alarming (Adabranium? Vibramantium? Either way, AWKWARD) On the sliding scale of functional adulthood, Johnny Storm trumps everyone else on the Fantastic Four. We have the technology to let Chris Evans play both Johnny Storm and Captain America in the same movie, so someone in Hollywood should get on that.
5. In three days I leave for Reading. Well, shit. I should probably go plan for that or something.
* Yes, you know what? The world does not end in this feel-good-go-go-military-might-summer-blockbuster-explodey-action-movie.
Newsflash? The good guys win. The Navy, who supplied all of the ships and most of the extras because this movie makes them look like shiny multicultural heroes and because they're sick of the USAF getting all the glory, are the good guys. They have Taylor Kitsch, whose very name requires that he win everything ever. If you really think that's a spoiler, are you SURE that this is the right journal for you to be reading?
2. Taste of Rockville: A++ would nom again. With bonus screenprinted art that I will need to send out to the framer this week. And find a place to hang. Um.
3. BATTLESHIP. No, see, it turns out? That Set and I are pretty much the target audience for this movie. Even the crap parts were fantastic crap, and it was clear that the creators were both totally aware of the requirements for summer action flicks, and a little too smart for their own good. It's another movie that manages to be too much meta for audiences to really like, and too much fuck-you-genre-police for critics to admire, I think. Also, we need a schedule for all the movies we need to see this summer.
The GK reference was SO HILARIOUS that I thought I was hearing things. As in, "wait, no, really? Did he REALLY just say that with a straight face? FAVORITE."
As far as we can tell, the residual message of BATTLESHIP is that the world was saved by everyone BUT the traditional white-guy action heroes.* Who spent the entire movie either sitting on their thumbs or Exploded in Meaningful Ways. While everyone with a hyphenated identity kicked alien ass.
Also, veterans are AWESOME.
In short, I approve.
4. Final Marvel superhero marathon count:
The Losers
Shaft
Iron Man
Captain America
X-Men: First Class
Fantastic Four
Conclusions: The Losers is a MUCH better movie when recast with Avengers. People may not be interchangeable like snowmobile parts, but apparently Air Force officers are. Captain America + Apples to Apples + alcohol = A++ drinking game. Both of the available alloys of vibranium and adamantium are alarming (Adabranium? Vibramantium? Either way, AWKWARD) On the sliding scale of functional adulthood, Johnny Storm trumps everyone else on the Fantastic Four. We have the technology to let Chris Evans play both Johnny Storm and Captain America in the same movie, so someone in Hollywood should get on that.
5. In three days I leave for Reading. Well, shit. I should probably go plan for that or something.
* Yes, you know what? The world does not end in this feel-good-go-go-military-might-summer-blockbuster-explodey-action-movie.
Newsflash? The good guys win. The Navy, who supplied all of the ships and most of the extras because this movie makes them look like shiny multicultural heroes and because they're sick of the USAF getting all the glory, are the good guys. They have Taylor Kitsch, whose very name requires that he win everything ever. If you really think that's a spoiler, are you SURE that this is the right journal for you to be reading?